NEW ZEALAND TIMBER
ADMISSION TO AUSTRALIA. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright-Melbourne, August 3. A deputation representing the timber industry asked Jlr. P. G. Tudor, Federal Minister, for Trado and .Customs, to urgently consider the matter of a rearrangement of tho duties on imported timber. Tho cheapness of tho imported article would hamper trade, while vast forests of native timber would bo neglected or sacrificed. Queensland could supply a certain amount of butter-box cimbcr, but as it could not fully meet the demand tho deputation vwro prepared to consent to New Zealand timber being imported free for this purpose.
They submitted a schedule- of proposed duties including four shillings per hundred superficial feet on New Zealand pine other than 'required for butter boxes. ir. Tudor replied that nest session it TV3S quite possible there would be a general reopening of the tariff question, when he would do his best to see that tho timber industry received consideration.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 886, 4 August 1910, Page 5
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154NEW ZEALAND TIMBER Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 886, 4 August 1910, Page 5
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